ARTIST’S STATEMENT

AItomatism is a testament of transformation. From old to new, the misunderstood to the accepted, and the indecipherable to the heard. It is both a celebration and a memorial.

Borrowing from the Automatist movement of the Surrealists and connecting to the AI art movement of today, this collection is an exploration of searching latent thoughts and ideas to surface new inspiration and beauty.

The early Automatists, themselves, borrowed from the emerging science of the day, psychology, to uncover what drives us. Their art, their ideas, and their writings at first appear as unintended gibberish only to surface as beauty and clarity, mirroring today’s AI landscape.

This collection hones in on one small element of this. The use and evolution of words.

As we sit on the cusp of new AI image models that have finally learned to speak, generating coherent words as well as images, I am left longing for the innocence and spontaneous, unexpected beauty of the gibberish it once provided.

I am reminded of technologies that “improved” leaving the old as nostalgic remnants of the past. TVs before color. Film before sound.

But this isn’t just a comment on technology but a milestone for what it means to be human, evolving with technology, with fear, with hope, with promise.

Listen to my interview with AI on this collection and what it means to me and all of us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrOs2nvOBU0